Archive for July, 2009

Smartphones Affected By Malware – Welcome To The Club

For years, as a P.C. and Windows user and developer, I’ve been forced to listen to inane claims about the superiority of Mac/Linux/BSD/Gameboys because they “don’t get viruses because they’re better products.”  Now, I usually try not to allow myself to be incited to anger, or shame, but come on.  That’s like saying that Malta [...]

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Why Isn’t Google Chrome In Widespread Use Yet?

In last Thursday’s article I ended up discussing browser market share and trends. As I wrote that article, I was using Firefox 3; As I write this article, however, I am using Google Chrome. This fact, actually, shocks even me, so I’ll share how it happened.
A quick search of google reveals that [...]

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

POST via cURL under NTLM Auth: Learn From My Pain

If you’ve been working with PHP in a professional capacity on Today’s Internet, you’ve probably run across one or two instances where you’ve had to use cURL. And, if you didn’t use cURL, at least seen where it could be useful. For instance, if allow_url_fopen is turned off. In fact, most of [...]

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Online Ratings Sites: When, Why, and How to Trust Them

One of the great gems of the information age is the ability of just about anyone, anywhere, to post anything, anytime, about whatever they want.  Of course, this comes with the drawback of just about anyone, anywhere, being able to post anything, anytime, about whatever they want.  Of course, if you’ve embraced the information age [...]

Friday, July 24th, 2009

CSS Versus Tables: The War Continues

Unfortunately, there’s a very ugly side to this debate. If you’ve actively been on either side of it, then you might hold the opinion that there is no pretty side to the debate, but in a relative sense, there is. The pretty side is about vertical alignment issues, low resolution displays, and the trauma of floats gone wrong. The ugly side is, without question, the unholiest member of the family that is CSS-supporting (however loosely the term need be applied) browsers: IE 6.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009